Cosmin
Munteanu

Cosmin Munteanu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at University of Toronto Mississauga, and Co-Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully lab at University of Toronto. His area of expertise is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural User Interfaces, Mobile Computing, Ethics, and Assistive Technologies, having dedicated the past two decades to investigating the human factors of interacting with information-rich media and intelligent technologies. His main research goals are to facilitate natural, meaningful, and safe interactions between people and digital media and devices. Cosmin’s multidisciplinary interests include speech and natural language interaction for mobile devices, mixed reality systems, learning technologies for marginalized users, usable privacy and cyber-safety, assistive technologies for older adults, and ethics in human-computer interaction research.

Supervision

I am open to supervising PhD and MI (thesis option) students who are interested in topics related to digital marginalization / digital inclusion, usability, social isolation, usable privacy and security, ethics in techno-centric fieldwork, under-represented user groups. From a technological perspective this can cover a wide range: mobiles, wearables, VR, AR, gaming, AI.